Sentences with phrase «dog study on»

To explain this further, we are focusing on the latest dog study on canine cognitive abilities, compiled by scientists and dog owners alike.

This has caused a rash of dog studies on separation anxiety in dogs to begin, finding that there are several variables that can cause separation anxiety in dogs to develop.

Not exact matches

«There are a lot of naturally occurring dog diseases — especially psychiatric diseases — that are very similar to human diseases,» Hyun Ji Noh, a geneticist at the Broad Institute and the lead author on the study, told Business Insider.

NEW YORK, March 20 - United Airlines is halting the shipment of pets in airplane cargo holds while it studies improvements, the carrier said on Tuesday, after the death of a puppy and mistakes in handling other dogs last week sparked negative publicity.

But that's also why dog poisonings by chocolate hit their highest mark on during the holiday season, as noted by a new study by U.K. researchers.

They don't scare away other predators that prey on geladas — the researchers saw feral dogs kill numerous monkeys during the study.

Humor That Works at Work Depends on the Type of Humor You Use A study led by Adam Miklosi found that, yet again, dogs can teach us a little something about the effectiveness of humor as a stress - buster.

International business speaker and author Michael Kerr shares the results of a study on working dogs that reveals valuable lessons about humor and play in the workplace.

It seems to me less arbitrary and more logical to go along with Jennings (quoted by Agar 1943, p. 153), who wrote after years of study on the behavior of amoebae: «I am thoroughly convinced, after long study of the behavior of this organism, that if Amoeba were a large animal, so as to come within the every day experience of human beings, its behavior would at once call forth the attribution to it of states of pleasure and pain, of hunger, desire, and the like, on precisely the same basis as we attribute these things to the dog.»

First, he was NEVER a great QB, even in Atlanta he was a run first guy and self - admitted slacked on studying to perfect his dog fighting craft.This is why many of us (including me) were STUNNED that he was even handed the starting job.

I follow my alma maters (UCSB amd CSUSB) on Instagram and I think it provides a lot of insight into the opportunities the schools offer as well as some further insight into the college (added plus: UCSB is prone to posting encouraging study posts feat adorable dogs, ocean backdrops, and lots of bikes, no surprise).

This number has more than doubled since last year, with a previous study on dog attacks wasby Guide Dogs published in Junely 2010 -LRB-?)

Kemp Hannon, a Long Island Republican, who is the Senate bill's sponsor, cited in a news release on Wednesday a 2013 study that he said showed a low public health risk from dogs in outdoor dining areas.

That's because the breeds — Portugal's Cão de Gado Transmontano, Bulgaria's Karakachan, and Turkey's Kangal — did better than local dogs at deterring wolves and coyotes on western U.S. ranches during the 4 - year, still - unpublished study.

«Organisms can deal with these stressful transitions from warm to cold by either acclimating - think about dogs putting on their winter coats - or by populations genetically evolving to deal with new stresses, a phenomenon known as rapid climate adaptation,» said Alison Gerken, a post-doctoral associate with UF's Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology and the lead author of a new study, published this month in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The UNC collaborators on the study team, led by Timothy C. Nichols, MD, performed gene therapy experiments using the well - established dog colony at their institution.

Dr Luis Pedro Coelho, commented: «These findings suggest that dogs could be a better model for nutrition studies than pigs or mice and we could potentially use data from dogs to study the impact of diet on gut microbiota in humans, and humans could be a good model to study the nutrition of dogs.

The restrictions are based on assumptions that certain breeds are inherently dangerous, that such dogs can be reliably identified and that the restrictions will improve public safety, the study states.

Climate change may be harming the future of African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) by impacting the survival rates of pups, according to one of the first studies on how shifting temperatures are impacting tropical species.

Building on this study's findings, ZSL is conducting further research to explore whether and how climate change impacts on wild dogs might be mitigated.

Future studies that follow dogs long term and look at specific lipid content in the blood may shed light on the mechanisms behind cholesterol's role in enhanced survival, Leeper said.

But nobody had studied whether dogs could pick up on olfactory cues from humans.

The study didn't test humans and dogs head to head — I think the dogs might win depending on the odor — but what it shows is the limits of human smell tracking haven't really been investigated.

Domesticating dogs from gray wolves more than 15,000 years ago involved artificial selection and inbreeding, but the effects of these processes on dog genomes have been little - studied.

If more nerve cells mean more smarts, then dogs beat cats, paws down, a new study on carnivores shows.

Dueling genetic studies based on the DNA of modern dogs and wolves suggest the fellowship between humans and dogs could have been forged in the Middle East, Central Asia, East Asia or, as Goyet's archaeological evidence suggests, in Europe.

«We have a 7,000 - year - old sample that was nearly indistinguishable from modern domesticated dogs,» says University of Michigan biologist Amanda Pendleton, a co-author on the study.

If I had studied only Gunnison's prairie dogs, on the other hand, I would have concluded that both costs and benefits of polyandry dramatically affect female survivorship and female reproductive success,» says Hoogland.

Research on street dogs in Bali seems to support this: Their DNA is more diverse than that of any other group of wild or domestic canines yet studied.

But Thalmann doubts that the study is the final word on where dogs were tamed, because the DNA comes only from animals living today.

A 2016 study in Royal Society: Biology Letters confirmed what today's dog owners have told anyone who'll listen: Dogs can interpret a human's emotional state based on the individual's facial expression, a rare interspecies feat.

According to the study, dogs were domesticated not once but twice, on opposite ends of the Eurasian continent at least 15,000 years ago.

Scientists who study faces today do not rely on their pet dogs or letters from friends in Brazil.

The results build on previous studies that show dogs can process nonverbal cues like the tone of someone's voice, says Victoria Ratcliffe, an animal behavior researcher at the University of Sussex, who was not involved in thestudy.

In this study, a team of researchers from Guide Dogs and the University of Nottingham examined data on all dog attacks on Guide Dogs» stock between June 2010 and February 2015.

Reported dog attacks on guide dogs have risen significantly over a five year period, finds a study published online in the journal Veterinary Record.

Of the dogs included in the study, 58 % went on to qualify as guide dogs, 27 % were behaviourally unsuited to guiding work and the remainder were unsuited for health reasons.

The results of a second study suggest that soon after domestication dogs began accompanying humans on long journeys.

Most of the research has focused on studying how dogs are capable to understand different forms of human communication, for example by displaying gestures and human voice recognition.

So geneticists have been focusing on the dog as a possible model for gene searches because this lack of sequence variation may help them circumvent a frequent problem with studies in humans.

Josef Singer and Judith Fazekas, both lead authors of the study, discovered that a receptor frequently found on human tumor cells (epidermal growth factor receptor or EGFR) is nearly 100 percent identical with the EGF receptor in dogs.

The study involved dogs viewing both static images and video images on a screen while undergoing fMRI.

For the current study, the researchers focused on how dogs respond to faces versus everyday objects.

ROME — Three employees of Green Hill, a company that breeds beagles for animal studies, are guilty of unjustified killing and mistreatment of dogs, a court in Brescia, Italy, ruled on Friday.

There is a «paucity of scientific studies on the ecological impact of domestic dogs,» especially at the national level, they note.

The largest ever study of howling in the «canid» family of species — which includes wolves, jackals and domestic dogs — has shown that the various species and subspecies have distinguishing repertoires of howling, or «vocal fingerprints»: different types of howls are used with varying regularity depending on the canid species.

Five hundred citizen scientists around the world have contributed data to a study of what goes on inside the minds of their dogs.

The lens in the human eye is very different from those in mice or dogs, and neither study explains how the steroids work on cataracts.

These studies were based on experimental work published earlier that year by Lloyd Old and Ted Boyse on the treatment of lymphosarcoma in dogs with L - asparaginase.

Mia Olsson, postdoc at the Department of Medicine at Karolinska Institutet and shared first author of the study comment on the value of dogs when studying this disorder: